Man_of_Steel Posted November 7, 2013 Posted November 7, 2013 What do you guys/gals think of this article? http://mises.ca/posts/articles/and-then-theres-you/
MysterionMuffles Posted November 7, 2013 Posted November 7, 2013 It resonates so well. I felt like I wasted too many years of my life not even learning anything or exploring the world, unless we went on field trips or I had interest in the content being taught in school. Only in the case of English class aka Language Arts ;P did I find school interesting. I loved reading, I loved answering questions about what I've read, and I truly did love writing essays on them as well writing my own short stories. I would be a much happier camper if my school life was dedicated to 8 hours a day writing for creative means, and not for social sciences, religion, actual science (before we were "old enough" to do expiraments) and all this other crap that just didn't apply to me. I spent two extra years in high school because for the first two years, I just didn't want to be there, so I found every possible reason to stay home. If skipping wasn't enough, I'd get into spats with teachers who I found abrasive just to get suspended. Not a good plan, especially when I got to my senior years and everyone I entered high school with were leaving. My goal was to NOT be there, so I decided to play within the system and start going to summer school every year and tried to catch up as best as I can. I was really fortunate to have found a program in my school which allowed me to get more than the standard 8 credits I would get in a year. (Four classes for a semester, and each year was divided into two semesters in my school). I was able to get 12 in one year as opposed to coming another extra semester to complete high school. Even when I DID graduate though, I had no interest in going to anymore school til a few laters, but I've opened up enough here and just leave the rest of my life details at that lol. But anyways, yeah I felt totally unprepared for life afterwards, and to some degree I still do 6 years later. At least in the past 6 years though, I've spent my time unschooling without really knowing it by diving into philosophy, studying writing through writing guides I simply got from my nearby bookstore, and I did take a one year program of creative writing in college and that ONE YEAR...was plenty times more worth my time than the years I wasted in high school. I liked the bit about stumbling on videos on Youtube. When I found FDR through a Facebook share, that's how my "awakening" happened when I began to delve deeper into understanding this messed up and disorganized world. Thanks for the share and welcome to the boards! I really realy loved this article.
Man_of_Steel Posted November 8, 2013 Author Posted November 8, 2013 I loved the article too. Hope you'll share it with more peeps! Regarding education, I'm at a point where I'm more convinced than ever: homeschooling is the key, if you really want your knowledge acquisition process to be effective.
MysterionMuffles Posted November 8, 2013 Posted November 8, 2013 Yeah because it's more to their pace and catered to their interests. I would go so far as UNSCHOOL if and when I have kids. In a stateless society, I still think schools would be important, but they shouldn't be age segregated and forced to learn a variety of subjects they could care less for. It should be like college/university but earlier in life since kids know what they want to do with their time at a younger age than 18, the age you graduate and feel like life is a huge hassle. I would probably make it so that you give the variety of subjects and whatever they succeed most in, they get evaluated if they're good at it because they just are, or if they have a passion for it, and then customize their education around that subject. And of course it should a whole lot less test based and writing by answering questions it should be more focussed on exploration. But then that just makes it circle back to unschooling anyway lol
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